We couldn't break down "lesbian" because we don't track our users on a micro-granular level (i.e., gender, sexual orientation, etc.). So for example, lesbian searches can account for, like, 40% of a city's searches, but 80% of those searchers may likely be men.

So basically it's a bunch of men watching lesbian porn, no real surprise there.

In fairness, the South includes both New Orleans and Key West, so that's gonna skew the numbers up a little bit. Plus it includes Texas, and we all know that steers can't use computers, so that really ups the numbers for that state.

demarke:locustfajita: We're supposed to celebrate this right? The tone of the headline suggests that the fact that the south enjoys more gay porn is some kind of liability. like gay porn is bad or something.

That's always puzzled me how seemingly accepted it is (on the internet and cable news anyway)for people to impart their "tolerance" on an entire region they have stereotyped as believing a certain way by hurling homophobic statements toward them.

Interesting double standard, yes? Sounds like being gay is accepted with a wink and a nod.

locustfajita:We're supposed to celebrate this right? The tone of the headline suggests that the fact that the south enjoys more gay porn is some kind of liability. like gay porn is bad or something.

That's always puzzled me how seemingly accepted it is (on the internet and cable news anyway)for people to impart their "tolerance" on an entire region they have stereotyped as believing a certain way by hurling homophobic statements toward them.

Paris1127:[s3-ec.buzzfed.com image 625x367]What, is the Delmarva Peninsula no longer part of the United States? And where are Alaska and Hawaii? Did the District of Columbia not warrant a number? (then again Congress would probably skew the numbers for DC...)

If it makes you feel better, Mississippi is also the most religious state*, the most obese, and has the highest poverty rate**. In addition, of the 50 states and District of Columbia, Mississippi has the lowest Human Development Index (according to both the UN and American HDIs), and the lowest life expectancy.

*not counting US territories, which are even more religious than Mississippi**DC has a higher poverty rate per household income, but is not technically a state

wow

Yep, Mississippi made to make Alabama feel better about it's crazy laws.

Wikipedia has a whole article about it...

Heh, exactly, It's a strange state.

To be fair, quite a lot of that poverty is due to the delta. Even other Mississippians look at the delta as a third world country. Crushing poverty, zero tax base, no real economic opportunity. Poor people, tamales, and blues music, it's a strange and fascinating place.

tinfoil-hat maggie:freetomato: I recently posted about the elderly grandma I know who proudly showed me her grandson's wedding album. It shocked me. She thinks his husband is a sweetheart and is happy for them. Miss Bea is old school Georgia, very Southern Baptist, yet she got it. She loves her boy and is happy for him. I think Jesus would approve.

I've been to extended family gatherings in Georgia some of them still have McCain/Palin stickers on their bumpers of cars, but all of them were accepting and okay with me and my transition. I thought I would have to give them up but nope.

That is happy news. I have a lesbian sister. She didn't decide to rebel and wave a gay rebel flag. She is as God made her, and we love her because she is just Jules.

freetomato:I recently posted about the elderly grandma I know who proudly showed me her grandson's wedding album. It shocked me. She thinks his husband is a sweetheart and is happy for them. Miss Bea is old school Georgia, very Southern Baptist, yet she got it. She loves her boy and is happy for him. I think Jesus would approve.

I've been to extended family gatherings in Georgia some of them still have McCain/Palin stickers on their bumpers of cars, but all of them were accepting and okay with me and my transition. I thought I would have to give them up but nope.

RickyWilliams'sBong:Elegy: As a southerner born and raised, I'm not going to pretend that Cletus and Clem are A-OK with teh ghays. But it's not as bad as you think it is: I've been to gay bars in towns that are so podunk they still talk about when they got their one and only streetlight 10 years ago. Gay bars do exist in the south, and they're damn near everywhere. But it's the sort of thing you would never know about unless someone local told you "oh, that's the local gay bar." Driving by there's usually no outward signage to indicate that its a gay bar - they usually look like any other shiathole bar in the south.

OTOH, the phrase "down low" was coined among southern blacks for a reason: the blacks in the south tend to be very religious and last time I saw numbers on it it was something like 90% opposed gay marriage. There's also the whole rejection of the "white effeminent" gay identity among southern blacks that led to the creation of the down low culture, but there's a whole nother bag of chips. Being on the DL is about more than being closeted, though.

I'm guessing you haven't seen numbers on that in quite some time and don't interact with black folks much, because a majority support gay marriage according to most polls I've seen in the last couple years (particularly since Obama endorsed it).

The whole "blacks and Latinos hate them qwrrrrrrrs just lahk us so they gon' vote frrrr us" thing is a delusion of southern Republicans.

Black men are still the majority group demographically that oppose gay marriage. At 53% opposition, they're only slightly ahead of conservatives as a whole (65% oppose).

Yes, acceptance has improved in the black community.

Yes, Obama has helped that. But guess what: Obama isn't a magic negro that can change the mind of every black person in america on a whim. The south has the highest percentage of fundamentalist black churches (primitive baptists anyone?) and black churchgoers. The southern black population is insanely conservative when it comes to religious issues.

Just because Obama is for gay marriage doesn't mean the entire black population of America is suddenly for gay marriage.

The numbers I cited are for national figures, where the urban black population outnumber the rural. I'm betting if I can find numbers for the south, there will still be strong (>60%) opposition in among southern blacks.

freetomato:I recently posted about the elderly grandma I know who proudly showed me her grandson's wedding album. It shocked me. She thinks his husband is a sweetheart and is happy for them. Miss Bea is old school Georgia, very Southern Baptist, yet she got it. She loves her boy and is happy for him. I think Jesus would approve

The percentage of pot smokers among Southern elderly is roughly equivalent to a California college campus, too. While there certainly is racism and occasional batshiat crazy derp down here, it's nothing at all like the stereotype outsiders have.

Cerebral Knievel:tinfoil-hat maggie: Cyberluddite: In fairness, the South includes both New Orleans and Key West, so that's gonna skew the numbers up a little bit. Plus it includes Texas, and we all know that steers can't use computers, so that really ups the numbers for that state.

You forgot Atlanta.

And Charllotte.

And Savanna

And Richmond.. hell.. the friggen Indian from the Village people lives here.

if you have a old, old southern town? chances are the place is run, under the covers, by the old society of life long confirmed bachelors of the old southern gentry.

there is a lot of gay society in the south that is well intrenched.. and they are the ones that are most likely celebrating the old antebellum showiness. and lemme tell ya.. them old queens know how to put on a good ole Bar-Be-Que

there is also a lot of backward Southern Baptist and the like Christian Wannabe conservative jackasses that tend to scream loud and spread filth and hate despite what the good book tells them and the rest of trying to get them to simmer on down.

A very vocal minority that you will find all over the United States. mucking everything up for the rest of us as usual.

That's the truth the onetime mayor of a little po dunk town just east of Huntsville was a nice older Black gentleman who was an eligible bachelor who just who just happened to have a taste for lovely antiques.

Boojum2k:tinfoil-hat maggie: Cyberluddite: In fairness, the South includes both New Orleans and Key West, so that's gonna skew the numbers up a little bit. Plus it includes Texas, and we all know that steers can't use computers, so that really ups the numbers for that state.

You forgot Atlanta.

You're in this thread, providing more reasons why I have you favorited as "one of the best."

Montgomery has had between one to three gay bars at any given time, but because they usually have better drinks and entertainment they get swamped by the local college kids of all orientations.

Elegy: As a southerner born and raised, I'm not going to pretend that Cletus and Clem are A-OK with teh ghays. But it's not as bad as you think it is: I've been to gay bars in towns that are so podunk they still talk about when they got their one and only streetlight 10 years ago. Gay bars do exist in the south, and they're damn near everywhere. But it's the sort of thing you would never know about unless someone local told you "oh, that's the local gay bar." Driving by there's usually no outward signage to indicate that its a gay bar - they usually look like any other shiathole bar in the south.

I've known country grandmothers who would hope one of their grandsons would be gay, because they thought them adorable. The same types who would go on about people burnin' in hell for various trivial reasons, but gay Bobbie was awesome in their book. Alabama is weird, and it's not always a bad weird. It very much is harder for a gay black man in the south, they don't get that same kind of quasi-approval.

I recently posted about the elderly grandma I know who proudly showed me her grandson's wedding album. It shocked me. She thinks his husband is a sweetheart and is happy for them. Miss Bea is old school Georgia, very Southern Baptist, yet she got it. She loves her boy and is happy for him. I think Jesus would approve.

Or the south is full of ignorant people who don't have the most recent security patches on their machines, thus are vulnerable to various nefarious issues. One of which may be that they are used as a proxy server unbeknownst to themselves. One of those seven proxies that douchecanoe is behind may be some redneck's unpatched XP machine.

tinfoil-hat maggie:Cyberluddite: In fairness, the South includes both New Orleans and Key West, so that's gonna skew the numbers up a little bit. Plus it includes Texas, and we all know that steers can't use computers, so that really ups the numbers for that state.

You forgot Atlanta.

You're in this thread, providing more reasons why I have you favorited as "one of the best."

Montgomery has had between one to three gay bars at any given time, but because they usually have better drinks and entertainment they get swamped by the local college kids of all orientations.

Elegy:As a southerner born and raised, I'm not going to pretend that Cletus and Clem are A-OK with teh ghays. But it's not as bad as you think it is: I've been to gay bars in towns that are so podunk they still talk about when they got their one and only streetlight 10 years ago. Gay bars do exist in the south, and they're damn near everywhere. But it's the sort of thing you would never know about unless someone local told you "oh, that's the local gay bar." Driving by there's usually no outward signage to indicate that its a gay bar - they usually look like any other shiathole bar in the south.

I've known country grandmothers who would hope one of their grandsons would be gay, because they thought them adorable. The same types who would go on about people burnin' in hell for various trivial reasons, but gay Bobbie was awesome in their book. Alabama is weird, and it's not always a bad weird. It very much is harder for a gay black man in the south, they don't get that same kind of quasi-approval.

RickyWilliams'sBong:I'm guessing you haven't seen numbers on that in quite some time and don't interact with black folks much, because a majority support gay marriage according to most polls I've seen in the last couple years (particularly since Obama endorsed it).

The whole "blacks and Latinos hate them qwrrrrrrrs just lahk us so they gon' vote frrrr us" thing is a delusion of southern Republicans.

RickyWilliams'sBong:Elegy: As a southerner born and raised, I'm not going to pretend that Cletus and Clem are A-OK with teh ghays. But it's not as bad as you think it is: I've been to gay bars in towns that are so podunk they still talk about when they got their one and only streetlight 10 years ago. Gay bars do exist in the south, and they're damn near everywhere. But it's the sort of thing you would never know about unless someone local told you "oh, that's the local gay bar." Driving by there's usually no outward signage to indicate that its a gay bar - they usually look like any other shiathole bar in the south.

OTOH, the phrase "down low" was coined among southern blacks for a reason: the blacks in the south tend to be very religious and last time I saw numbers on it it was something like 90% opposed gay marriage. There's also the whole rejection of the "white effeminent" gay identity among southern blacks that led to the creation of the down low culture, but there's a whole nother bag of chips. Being on the DL is about more than being closeted, though.

I'm guessing you haven't seen numbers on that in quite some time and don't interact with black folks much, because a majority support gay marriage according to most polls I've seen in the last couple years (particularly since Obama endorsed it).

The whole "blacks and Latinos hate them qwrrrrrrrs just lahk us so they gon' vote frrrr us" thing is a delusion of southern Republicans.

Politics makes strange bedfellows. Pretending that the huge chunk of black folks in the "no homo, pause " culture aren't some of most homophobic people in the U.S. is a blatant lie.

Cerebral Knievel:tinfoil-hat maggie: Cyberluddite: In fairness, the South includes both New Orleans and Key West, so that's gonna skew the numbers up a little bit. Plus it includes Texas, and we all know that steers can't use computers, so that really ups the numbers for that state.

You forgot Atlanta.

And Charllotte.

And Savanna

And Richmond.. hell.. the friggen Indian from the Village people lives here.

if you have a old, old southern town? chances are the place is run, under the covers, by the old society of life long confirmed bachelors of the old southern gentry.

there is a lot of gay society in the south that is well intrenched.. and they are the ones that are most likely celebrating the old antebellum showiness. and lemme tell ya.. them old queens know how to put on a good ole Bar-Be-Que

there is also a lot of backward Southern Baptist and the like Christian Wannabe conservative jackasses that tend to scream loud and spread filth and hate despite what the good book tells them and the rest of trying to get them to simmer on down.

A very vocal minority that you will find all over the United States. mucking everything up for the rest of us as usual.

What he said.

My folks are old, white, conservative, church going folks, who love to have their gay-couple friends over for dinner.

tinfoil-hat maggie:Cyberluddite: In fairness, the South includes both New Orleans and Key West, so that's gonna skew the numbers up a little bit. Plus it includes Texas, and we all know that steers can't use computers, so that really ups the numbers for that state.

You forgot Atlanta.

And Charllotte.

And Savanna

And Richmond.. hell.. the friggen Indian from the Village people lives here.

if you have a old, old southern town? chances are the place is run, under the covers, by the old society of life long confirmed bachelors of the old southern gentry.

there is a lot of gay society in the south that is well intrenched.. and they are the ones that are most likely celebrating the old antebellum showiness. and lemme tell ya.. them old queens know how to put on a good ole Bar-Be-Que

there is also a lot of backward Southern Baptist and the like Christian Wannabe conservative jackasses that tend to scream loud and spread filth and hate despite what the good book tells them and the rest of trying to get them to simmer on down.

A very vocal minority that you will find all over the United States. mucking everything up for the rest of us as usual.

jaylectricity:I'm going to suppose it's because gaysblacks in the south have to get their action on the downlow, not that there are more gays there.

Fixed for accuracy.

As a southerner born and raised, I'm not going to pretend that Cletus and Clem are A-OK with teh ghays. But it's not as bad as you think it is: I've been to gay bars in towns that are so podunk they still talk about when they got their one and only streetlight 10 years ago. Gay bars do exist in the south, and they're damn near everywhere. But it's the sort of thing you would never know about unless someone local told you "oh, that's the local gay bar." Driving by there's usually no outward signage to indicate that its a gay bar - they usually look like any other shiathole bar in the south.

OTOH, the phrase "down low" was coined among southern blacks for a reason: the blacks in the south tend to be very religious and last time I saw numbers on it it was something like 90% opposed gay marriage. There's also the whole rejection of the "white effeminent" gay identity among southern blacks that led to the creation of the down low culture, but there's a whole nother bag of chips. Being on the DL is about more than being closeted, though.

likefunbutnot:Funny, true story: Shemale porn is both ridiculously common and popular and is considered a straight genre. It's not something gay men are interested in seeing but if you look on a "tube" or torrent site it'll be all over the place.

That's counter intuitive to almost everyone who isn't a regular porn consumer but it's definitely out there and part of the landscape.

As a bi trans woman that's true. Gay men aren't attracted to me but lot's of bi and straight men are.

Funny, true story: Shemale porn is both ridiculously common and popular and is considered a straight genre. It's not something gay men are interested in seeing but if you look on a "tube" or torrent site it'll be all over the place.

That's counter intuitive to almost everyone who isn't a regular porn consumer but it's definitely out there and part of the landscape.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom:We got more blacks, more Mexicans, and more gays than our northern counterparts, but we're the ones that need to work on diversity. Right

When southern states work to repeal or undo civil voting rights, and when an entire continental region is known for its homophobic traits and hate crimes? Yeah. Yeah it does.

/Everywhere/ needs to work on improving diversity, gender, race, and sexual orientation tolerances. Some areas just have further to go than others.

If you're one of the many (including in the region) who don't consider someone less than (x) because of the color of their skin, the bits they were born with between their legs, or the gender of people they choose to sleep with, then props to you and keep up the good fight.

tlchwi02:ReapTheChaos: So basically it's a bunch of men watching lesbian porn, no real surprise there.

no, what they are saying is that they don't count lesbian porn as 'gay' porn because too many straight men watch lesbian porn and they don't collect enough data to differentiate how many watchers of lesbian porn are lesbian women and how many are straight men watching two chicks.

the real presumption is that straight men and women do not also watch gay male porn, which may or may not be correct.

YAOI- man on man porn usually made for women's enjoymentYURI- Woman on woman porn usually made for men's enjoyment

Both are Gay porn. I didn't read the article, but something here tells me that there's a bunch of red-blooded heteros who are watching the opposite sex be gay for the titillation of the thought that they may one day be invited to such a gathering.

no, what they are saying is that they don't count lesbian porn as 'gay' porn because too many straight men watch lesbian porn and they don't collect enough data to differentiate how many watchers of lesbian porn are lesbian women and how many are straight men watching two chicks.

the real presumption is that straight men and women do not also watch gay male porn, which may or may not be correct.

fusillade762:We pulled terms and traffic to gay searches. We couldn't break down "lesbian" because we don't track our users on a micro-granular level (i.e., gender, sexual orientation, etc.). So for example, lesbian searches can account for, like, 40% of a city's searches, but 80% of those searchers may likely be men.So to answer, it's a rundown of gay porn from male users.